Help with movie file please

didn't really know where to ask this so i guess the newbie section really is the place for me... anyway

several times in the past i have noticed that some movie files (.mpg, .avi, etc.) can open my browser to a specified webpage. I think i have only seen this with porn clips, you start the clip and at some point while it is playing BAM!... you are staring straight down the barrel of a website!

I want to be able to do this. I have looked high. I have looked low. I am lost. I want my mommy. ..but i will settle for any answer that points me in the right direction. please help if you can. Please. <---- (note the begging and pleading!)

Have you tried 'view source' on pages where the video plays automatically?

Information on how to setup an <object> tag to autoplay a video can be found here:

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html4...ial/object.html

thank you very much for the reply. I dont have any of the movie files now. I wish i did, because i think you are right. It would help a great deal to be able to view the page's source code. but alas now in this late hour I realise the folly of my ways.

Anyway. It is something intrinsic with the movie file itself..... I think I have a lead with "Web link" commands in Premier.

Actually, all you have to do is set a <param autoplay='yes'> tag w/in the <object></object> tags, and the video will play once the page is loaded. Check out the link in my last post, it provides an example.

drgroove, you aren't getting what he's asking about (happens to the best of us ). He's not saying that he loads a page and a video starts playing, he's saying he downloads a video, and when he plays it (in say, media player), it opens his browser and displays a page. The "web link" in Premier is a good lead...

Thank you Karsh44.

For anyone else interested I have also had someone point me towards DRM "Digital Rights Management"

ahhhhh. You're right... I wasn't getting that. But, I'm glad that you did!